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International Athletics is a sports game for the iPhone/ iPod Touch. Players can compete in a wide array of sporting events from sprinting to discus and even the pole vault. The games are broken down into categories making them easy to find in the quick play mode.

International Athletics offers three playing modes, Quick Event, Decathlon and Tournament. The Quick Event is a great mode to for two reasons. Players can practice all of the different events and players can play short bursts of the game as their time permits. Some of the events took a good amount of practice to get the hang of them. Basically, anything that involved throwing took me a while to get use to. The item being thrown would land foul most of the time, until I got the hang of the controls. All of the modes have difficulty levels as well. Players can play as a rookie, pro or advanced.

The Decathlon lets players compete in ten randomly chosen events. The events are mixed from the track and field events, the throwing events and the jumping events. The difficulty comes down to the events that are chosen for you. Some events are a bit easier to compete in than other events. The running events are the easiest and the throwing events are the most difficult.

The Tournament mode has players competing in randomly chosen events, but this time you are competing for a country and not for yourself. The events are still a mix of jumping, running and throwing.Players can choose from three different countries to represent, Spain, Canada and China.

The control mechanisms are all touch based. Some events are easier to get the hang of the controls than other events. The running is the easiest event to control. Players simply rub their finger back and forth on the screen to get their character to run. The throwing and jumping events can take a bit to get use to. Players have to touch the screen multiple times at different points to get all of the actions complete. For instance, if the player is doing a long jump, they rub their finger back and forth to get the character to run and then before the white line, touch and hold your finger on the screen to get the angle meter to appear and then tap the screen again at the desired angle. It doesn’t sound too difficult, but it is hard to get it all right when the character is in the middle of the long jump. It takes some practice, but most games do.

International Athletics offers many hours of game play and has a ton of different events. There are enough different types of events to keep the biggest sports fan entertained for quite some time. The other nice thing is there is a mode for the amount of time you have available. If you are waiting around and have a bunch of time on your hands, you can start up a Decathlon, but if you only have about 5 to 10 minutes to spare then you can play a quick event. If you are a sports fan, you can’t go wrong with International Athletics. Head over to the Apple App Store and check it out.

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